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Sixty Miles of Border: An American Lawman Battles Drugs on the Mexican Border

av Terry Kirkpatrick

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The border between the United States and Mexico is a no-man's land. Drugs, guns, and human beings are the cargo of choice in a multi-billion dollar illegal empire dominated by powerful cartels, murderous street gangs, and corrupt government officials. Against them stand the Special Agents of the United States Customs Service - men and women who fight to uphold the law and protect the U.S. on both sides of the border. Terry Kirkpatrick worked one of the toughest jobs in America- a U.S. Customs agent on the border between Arizona and Mexico. He's seen it all and done more for over twenty years in a job that many officers quit before they make it six months. These are the gritty and graphic true stories of Terry and his fellow 'Border Rats' as they patrol America's modern badlands, where bullets are currency and blood is taken as payment. From the inhuman conditions people suffer under to get onto American soil, to working with blatantly crooked military leaders, to some of the most insane and unbelievable situations ever survived. Sixty Miles of Bordersheds an unsparing light into the life of customs agents, their dealings on the border, the effect on their daily lives - and an unsparing look at one of the most hotly debated and controversial topics in modern America. Includes Photographs… (mer)
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From the early days of his career to taking over the Nogales station Kirkpatrick gives us a blow-by-blow on life as a U.S. Customs agent.
These special agents are the deterrent that stands between the smuggled drugs, guns and human contraband arriving in America. The marauding street gangs and the more powerful cartels all operate just the other side of the street, a fence away in the Nogales neighborhoods in Arizona. To catch them to stop them at their own game takes careful planning, careful planning and a well-placed snitch.
Told in an amazing array of down and dirty street novellas Kirkpatrick leads us through the dangerous antics, the undercover work and sometimes humorous undertakings he and his fellow agents compiled in a twenty year life time of law enforcement.
Witness for yourself, through the entertaining grist the border stories that demonstrate how corruption is rampant on both sides, that almost everyone has a price they can be bought for and how much of a struggle it is to maintain law and order during the chaos in a border town.
An entertaining, true crime drama from the point of view of an agent, who has literally been there and done it and now, tells you all about the way it really is out there.
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  MarkPSadler | Jan 17, 2016 |

From the early days of his career to taking over the Nogales station Kirkpatrick gives us a blow-by-blow on life as a U.S. Customs agent.
These special agents are the deterrent that stands between the smuggled drugs, guns and human contraband arriving in America. The marauding street gangs and the more powerful cartels all operate just the other side of the street, a fence away in the Nogales neighborhoods in Arizona. To catch them to stop them at their own game takes careful planning, careful planning and a well-placed snitch.
Told in an amazing array of down and dirty street novellas Kirkpatrick leads us through the dangerous antics, the undercover work and sometimes humorous undertakings he and his fellow agents compiled in a twenty year life time of law enforcement.
Witness for yourself, through the entertaining grist the border stories that demonstrate how corruption is rampant on both sides, that almost everyone has a price they can be bought for and how much of a struggle it is to maintain law and order during the chaos in a border town.
An entertaining, true crime drama from the point of view of an agent, who has literally been there and done it and now, tells you all about the way it really is out there.
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  MarkPSadler | Jan 17, 2016 |
Pretty good book. Pretty realistic as to what the border patrol officer deal with on a daily basis. ( )
  ddracer7040 | Oct 1, 2012 |
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The border between the United States and Mexico is a no-man's land. Drugs, guns, and human beings are the cargo of choice in a multi-billion dollar illegal empire dominated by powerful cartels, murderous street gangs, and corrupt government officials. Against them stand the Special Agents of the United States Customs Service - men and women who fight to uphold the law and protect the U.S. on both sides of the border. Terry Kirkpatrick worked one of the toughest jobs in America- a U.S. Customs agent on the border between Arizona and Mexico. He's seen it all and done more for over twenty years in a job that many officers quit before they make it six months. These are the gritty and graphic true stories of Terry and his fellow 'Border Rats' as they patrol America's modern badlands, where bullets are currency and blood is taken as payment. From the inhuman conditions people suffer under to get onto American soil, to working with blatantly crooked military leaders, to some of the most insane and unbelievable situations ever survived. Sixty Miles of Bordersheds an unsparing light into the life of customs agents, their dealings on the border, the effect on their daily lives - and an unsparing look at one of the most hotly debated and controversial topics in modern America. Includes Photographs

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